US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA
"After 52 years it is time for the US to fully recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!" Trump wrote on Twitter. It was the most overt move made yet by Trump to help Netanyahu, who faces an April 9 election. Trump remains popular in Israel, and his advisers have been developing a Middle East peace proposal for release sometime after the Israeli elections.
The prime minister had been expected to raise the issue with Trump during his visit to Washington next week, an Israeli official said.
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